As a blogger and photographer, one of the tasks that I often have to do is to create multiple crops of the same photo. In the past, I might have had to create those crops one at a time, or record a complex action. In Photoshop CC 2015 however, I can create these crops quickly and easily using artboards, smart objects, and a simple template that I created.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create an artboard using specific dimensions, how to fill that artboard with a smart object, how to export those artboards simultaneously, as well as how to create overlay previews that Photoshop will ignore on export. Let’s get started!